Word: dual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Writers at TIME are aware that their work is often used by teachers as an educational tool. That's one reason we created TIME FOR KIDS. A number of our journalists have become dual purpose. They donate a couple of hours every Tuesday during the school year to a program called Time to Read. Since its launch in 1985, TIME staff members, as well as those from other Time Inc. publications, have served as reading tutors to local public school students. The pupils read from a variety of our magazines, from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FOR KIDS to TEEN PEOPLE, enhancing their...
Watch for emerging support groups for working parents trying to deal with the sudden absence of guilt in their lives. According to Ellen Galinsky?s new book, "Ask the Children: What America?s Children Really Think About Working Parents," the majority of kids in dual-income households feel they spend enough time with their parents. Only 10 percent of the 1,000 children Galinsky interviewed wish they could spend more time with their moms, while 16 percent want more of their dads? time. Many parents who were interviewed predicted their kids would want them to stop working, while in fact...
...conversation, Purdy is hardly humorless. In fact, he's downright funny, even absurd. Cherub-faced, with a bowl-shaped haircut unsullied by the professional stylist's scissors, he gives off a dual impression of utter youthfulness and uncanny erudition. He uses the word ontology as naturally as other young men say "dude," but he's quite capable of vivid straight talk. Of his idealistic upbringing he says, "There are families that eat hot dogs and families that don't. We were a family that didn't." And his complaint about a tedious party thrown by his publisher to introduce...
Barnes counted Alan B. Hubbard, who met Bush at HBS and is now a wealthy entrepreneur in Indianapolis; Lawrence Lindsay, a former Harvard economics professor; and Bob Zoellick, who holds dual graduate degrees from the University, among Bush's top advisers...
...past three years, Anne Browning has played a dual role in Harvard athletics. The Adams House senior has served as the starting goalkeeper for the women's soccer team in the fall and rowed for the first boat of the Radcliffe heavyweight crew in the spring...